Recipe Radar

Recipe Radar assists players in finding recipes. It knows about vendors who sell recipes in the current region or by profession. It has a number of filtering options and can even locate vendors on the world map.

Tips:

There are two "tabs": the main "radar" tab and one that searches by profession!

You can bind a key to Recipe Radar through the main menu!

There are lots of filtering options - use the dropdowns to customize Recipe Radar!

Some internal maps are inaccurate at this time, it is currently a work in progress to fix these up.

v 1.403; November 30, 2011

- Update supporting libraries for 4.3.0
- Update TOC for 4.3.0

v 1.402; November 27, 2011

- Incorporate fixes from multiple contributors, revive project.

v1.33; August 11, 2009

- Fixed several "no coordinates" asserts, sigh.

v1.32; August 9, 2009

- Updated for WoW 3.2, including the new recipes.
- Alchemy should work again for German users.
- Fixed a bunch of incorrect recipe data.
- Updated the Icecrown map.

v1.31; April 14, 2009

- Updated for WoW 3.1.

v1.30; March 11, 2009

- Updated recipe data; asserts should no longer appear in Dalaran, Stormwind
and Orgrimmar. Also updated the Stormwind map.
- Recipe Radar is now able to parse collapsed reputation sections.
- Corrupted alt databases should be repaired on next use.
- Trade skill filters (eg. searches) should no longer adversely affect your
character's known recipes.
- This is also true for others' linked trade skills (thank you, Thortok2000!).

v1.29; November 15, 2008

- Fixed major problems with the Russian and German translations.
- Added lots more WotLK recipes.
- Item-based costs now show up explicitly.

- Fixed the lockup bug on some zone changes.
- Fixed a bug that triggered when two players have the same profession but
different specialties.
- Users should no longer see the question mark icon for uncached recipes.
- Adjusted some vendor attributes.

- Included the new recipes added in v2.2.
- Tailoring specialists should no longer see recipes from other
specializations.

v1.23; July 24, 2007

- Major changes to the Spanish and Chinese name maps.
- Fixed some Scryr/Aldor recipe mistakes.
- Specialties now show up in the 'Note' field.
- Added a couple of new recipes.
- Fixed Hillsbrad Foothills on German clients (I hope).

v1.22; April 13, 2007

- Fixed recipe availability checking for Unicode locales.

v1.21; April 12, 2007

- Added a Chinese Traditional translation (thank you, Edeson!).
- Spanish recipes should now be recognized as known, I hope.

v1.20; February 27, 2007

- All of the new factions should now actually work (sigh).
- Removed some troublesome recipe inaccuracies.
- Fixed item linking.
- Localized vendor names.

- Updated all of the new German location names.
- Thistle Tea should now only be applicable to rogues.

v1.14; December 14, 2006

- Fixed a fairly nasty startup bug.
- Updated the README.

v1.13; December 8, 2006

- Updated German capital names. (Thank you, David!)

v1.12; December 6, 2006

- Updated for LUA v5.1 (and WoW v2.0).
- Partial support for the Spanish (esES) locale. As always,
localization contributions are most welcome.
- "Available" recipes from the opposing faction should no longer blink
the minimap button when entering a new region.
- Fixed the rep requirement for Enchant Weapon - Strength.

- I'd forgotten to enable specialization checking! It should now work.
- Auctioneer and Recipe Book are now supported in the recipe icon
mouseover. Thanks very much to borohir for this functionality!

v1.9; September 5, 2006

- Recipes names are now cached when learned. This should make new
Blizzard patches less of a hassle.
- Availability checking now takes faction reputation and trade skill
specialties into account.
- Adjusted some vendor information.
- Reduced memory usage significantly.

v1.8; July 11, 2006

- Several new German region names were missing in v1.7. Hopefully they
are all correct now.
- Adjusted some vendor information.

v1.7; June 24, 2006

- Fixed the nasty profession selection bug for non-English versions.
- Profession icons should now show up for non-English versions.
- Unlearning a profession should now be handled correctly.
- Fixed several new 1.11 German region names.
- Added the new 1.11 Cenarion Circle recipes.
- Several vendors were incorrectly marked as Alliance-only (thank you,
Howlin!).

v1.6; June 21, 2006

- Added a right-click context menu to the scroll frame. From this
menu users can map vendors and expand/collapse all items.
- Fixed bug causing non-English profession stuff to suck (thank you
ElKano and Jeremy Gurr!).
- Alts of a different team should no longer appear in the availability
list.
- Adjusted the German translation.
- Adjusted some vendor locations.

v1.5; May 11, 2006

- All recipes that are named differently after learning (eg. transmutes)
should now show up correctly as known or not. This applies, in theory,
to all locales.
- Revamped the filtering code and fixed filtering, I hope, for non-
English versions.
- Nonapplicable professions and known recipes are now different filtering
categories in both availability modes.
- Fixed the incompatibility with Metamap, more or less.
- Tweaked the German translation and some vendor locations.

v1.4; May 7, 2006

- Revised German translation (thanks to DJMars and Elkano!).
- Dropdown filters are now effected every time Recipe Radar is opened.
Filters should now work much more intuitively.
- Fixed a bug that sometimes caused an error message on startup and/or
zone changes.
- Changed Alliance color to blue.
- Added a couple of missing vendors/recipes and improved the positions of
several others.
- Enchant Bracer - Healing should now show up correctly as known or not.

v1.3; April 29, 2006

- Fixed a bug that was preventing about half of the maps from displaying
on non-English clients.
- Adjusted some vendor locations.

v1.2; April 28, 2006

- Fixed chat message parsing bugs in non-English versions.
- Added an option to auto-map (but not auto-unmap!) contributive vendors.
- Added the number of learnable recipes to mapped vendor tooltips.
- Changed the '/rr' slash command to '/rrdr'.
- Map tooltips will hopefully no longer run off the screen.

v1.1; April 27, 2006

- Added support for the frFR locale. (I hope it works..)
- Added the ability to view regions other than the current region. The
relevant settings now appear in the Options frame.
- Instance vendors can no longer be mapped.
- Non-English versions should now be able to use the dropdowns (I hope).
- Now accounting for WoW's "Mithril Head Trout" bug - it should now show
up correctly as known or not.

I've been using RR for a long while and like very much. It's such a time saver :-).

I have one nagging issue with it that I don't know if it was ever reported.

Every now and again, RR will forget most (if not all) of the tradeskill of one of my alts. I normally see that when I go to Shat and have 14 little scroll indicators that pup-up in the minimap only to find out that RR believe that my level 375 need to learn how to do 16 slots bag. To correct the issue, I need to relog with the alt and open the tradeskill window in question. This happen with any of my alts and for any tradeskill. Normally, it happens for one tradeskill for a particular alt but sometime for both of them.

I've tried to note if I'm doing anything particular to make the problem happen and I can't reproduce it at will for now. The one clue I have is that it appears to happen if I use the filters in the tradeskill window. It's like RR sometimes decided the the filtered output is everything that the character know and erase everything else.

I'll try to dig in the code when I have the chance but I was wondering if you could point me to the sections of RR where the tradeskill for a character are saved (and erased :-) ). I was also wondering if I was the only one having this issue.

If you want me to do things in particular when the problem happen, let me know.

Originally posted by Yelina Today and yesterday when I used a portal with a character, my screen freezes and I need to close the game with Alt F4.
Today I tried my addons, with disabling etc. and I discovered it is Recipe Radar which causes it.
Dunno if other ppl having the same problem, but I thought I mention it here.
For now I have disabled Recipe Radar and I await to see if other ppl also has the problem, or if it is something that can be found or something.

I have the same problem disabled all of them till I found this one to be the problem and seems to be porting to and from the island.

Today and yesterday when I used a portal with a character, my screen freezes and I need to close the game with Alt F4.
Today I tried my addons, with disabling etc. and I discovered it is Recipe Radar which causes it.
Dunno if other ppl having the same problem, but I thought I mention it here.
For now I have disabled Recipe Radar and I await to see if other ppl also has the problem, or if it is something that can be found or something.

Gah! I did indeed completely forget to include several new source files in the v1.25 distribution - thank you everyone for the prompt and thorough reporting of this nasty bug. The v1.26 distribution should be complete, so please try that one at your convenience.

Originally posted by Grizzly UK Getting constant errors from this now, every couple of minutes it's throwing up an error about bring unable to find a library called Astrolabe 0.4! This error makes RecipeRadar totally useless now.

Getting constant errors from this now, every couple of minutes it's throwing up an error about being unable to find a library called Astrolabe 0.4! This error makes RecipeRadar totally useless now.

EDIT: Did a little bit of digging around, seems that Recipe Radar is now "supposed" to use Astrolabe for displaying icons on the minimap, unfortunately no version of Astrolabe is included in Recipe Radar v1.25 which is why this version of Recipe Radar constantly throws an error message!

The only other addon that I use which also uses Astrolabe is TomTom, but it seems as if the version of Astrolabe included with TomTom is a "unique" version ("Astrolabe-0.4-NC"), which I guess the author of TomTom has done so as not to break any other addons using Astrolabe.

However, having checked other addons that use Astrolabe, I found that the latest version of Gatherer (v3.1.1) does use "Astrolabe-0.4" so I'm going to try copying the Astolabe folder from Gatherer into Recipe Radar's folder to see if that fixes the error! I'll post back later after I've had a chance to test this.

EDIT 2: Copying the Astrolabe folder from the latest Gatherer to RecipeRadar's folder seems to fix the "missing lib" error!

I have come to rely on Recipe Radar in the brief time since I began to use it. It's a brilliant AddOn! Like many other players, Blizzard's upgrade of WoW to 2.2 caught me off guard and I've been frantically trying to get the updates for the AddOns that I use. I've been a little frustrated by the experience, since 2.2 seems rather picky and doesn't seem to want to load an AddOn that hasn't specifically been updated for v2.2. However, WoW will load an AddOn if the AddOn .toc file tells WoW that it is for version 2.2. Basically what this means is in order to get WoW to load the AddOn all you need to do is to make the first line in the AddOn's .toc file read:

## Interface: 20200

I decided to help things along by changing the first line in the .toc of the AddOns I couldn't live without, but was unable to find the updates for. The result is that the AddOns do load and seem to work. I don't know how stable they're going to be, but if you're reading this because you like Recipe Radar and it isn't working for WoW 2.2 . . . open up the document titled RecipeRadar.toc with a text editor and change the first line as mentioned above.

The only thing I noticed missing, and from my reading learned that you personally can not fix it, is too add missing Vendors. I thought maybe that I could manually map or add vendors as I came crossed them, but guess not. This would be a really Kewl Fix if it could be implemented, or maybe have an automated something or other to plot them to your database so the Author can add them.....

wrt localization, did you think about trying to mine from the armory?
It's a bit work wrt the scripts since you have to tell by http header which language you want but the data is most likely up2date and official.

Brilliant mod, i wish i found this one sooner. One thing tho, when i learn a new recipe, the recipe window doesn't update with the new information that i have learned it, i.e. it still show the recipe as green, not until i have closed and reopened the window does it correctly display it as gray.